Every year, the CT Challenge draws thousands of bike riders. They ride up to 100 miles on scenic roads, raising millions of dollars for cancer survivors.
It’s a team effort — including volunteers.
On Saturday, 2nd Selectwoman Andrea Moore joined members of Westport’s National Charity League, helping at the Mile 17 rest stop in front of Redding Town Hall.
Among the riders who stopped for water (and moral support): Westport Public Schools assistant superintendent John Bayers (2nd from right in photo below), and Westporters Roy Kim (front left) and Victor Garra (back right, without helmet).
The group completed 77.9 hard-earned miles.
2nd Selectwoman Andrea Moore, with riders in Redding.
Westport’s National Charity League volunteers (from left): Megan Lott, Deanne McGuinn, Maya McGuinn, Ella Moore, Jaden Tracey, Sonja Tracey, Andrea Moore, Stephanie Bulkeley, Kate Bulkeley.
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It’s a simple gesture — and one that most folks driving past the Imperial Avenue office building opposite Jesup Road don’t notice.
But anyone walking or jogging past hears music coming from a small speaker, placed strategically on a tree stump at #27-29.
Yesterday’s selection was particularly apt: “Chariots of Fire.” The film is about 2 runners training for the Olympics — the 1924 Games, in Paris.
Rachel Markus says, “I’m grateful to whomever has decided to share their music!”
The speaker (lower right) plays music that inspires joggers on Imperial Avenue. (Photo/Rachel Markus)
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Everyone of a certain age remembers MAD magazine.
Now — in a new book exploring the impact of the satirical publication on American life and culture — Mary-Lou Weisman remembers it too.
The Westport writer’s remembrances of cartoonist Al Jaffee is one of 28 essays. She is joined by (among others) Roz Chast, R. Crumb, Adam Gopnik and Art Spiegelman.
“The MAD Files: Writers and Cartoonists on the Magazine That Warped America’s Brain” will be published in September. Click here for details.
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Hundreds of youngsters painted rocks yesterday, with the help of Compo Beach Playground Committee members, at the first-ever Soundview Summer Stroll.
Some that were drying were not picked up by their “owners.” They can be claimed today, on the Soundview seawall.
(Photo/Totney Benson)
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A home on Morningside Drive has multiple deer feeders.
As this “Westport … Naturally” photo shows, that’s a lot better meal for homeowners than bushes and flowers.
(Photo/Johanna Keyser Rossi)
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What? Me worry?
Unrelated to this upcoming publication — as far as I know — is an exhibit entitled “What, Me Worry? The Art and Humor of MAD Magazine” at the Norman Rockwell Museum in Stockbridge, MA. It’s a very detailed look at the madness that made it onto the pages of, well, Mad Magazine.
Unrelated — as far as I know — to the upcoming publication of “The MAD Files: Writers and Cartoonists on the Magazine That Warped America’s Brain” is an extraordinarily detailed exhibit entitled “What, Me Worry? The Art and Humor of MAD Magazine” currently up at the Norman Rockwell Museum in Stockbridge MA, runs through October 27th.
Yeah, as a kid with a warped sense of humor each issue of Mad Magazine was eagerly anticipated. I still have a couple of issues in my library and their spoofs of TV shows and movies were always hilarious.
Your readers should know that Mary-Lou wrote a biography of Al Jaffee called “Al Jaffee’s Mad Life”, published by HarperCollins